The U.S. federal government comprises 3 different branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. The powers of these three branches of government were defined in by the U.S. Constitution, which has ...

Long the most critical branch of the federal government, Congress has ceded much of its own institutional power. Here's how ...

The Trump administration has submitted an emergency petition to the U.S. Supreme Court requesting a stay of a D.C. Circuit ...

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday advanced, as amended, a $5.09 billion fiscal 2020 Legislative Branch spending bill that would continue a pay freeze for members of Congress. The issue ...

David Kurtz at TPM quotes from a government directory known as the "Plum Book," to which Cheney's office submitted this entry in lieu of a list of its employees, as federal agencies must do: The Vice ...

Civil society groups and former lawmakers are calling on appropriators to boost funding for Congress itself to stem what they call a “significant loss of institutional capacity.” Ten former lawmakers, ...

Congress can be a difficult place for technology vendors to do business. The legislative branch’s “unique, fragmented and opaque rules” set a barrier to entry that can keep even vendors with ...

The Utah Legislature, not content with passing laws, goes beyond the power granted it in the Utah Constitution by invading executive branch functions. Utah Constitution, Art. V, Sec. 1 states, “The ...